STRAVINSKY PULCINELLA
About the Artists
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 8 pm
Saturday, November 23, 2019, 7 pm Off The Cuff
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Friday, November 22, 2019, 8:15 pm
Sunday, November 24, 2019, 3 pm
Off The Cuff
Marin Alsop, conductor
Elise Thora Volkmann, soprano
Jason Lee Berger, tenor
Peter Tomaszewski, bass
Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture, op. 80
Lera Auerbach
Eve’s Lament – O Flowers, That Never Will Grow
(U.S. Premiere)
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, op. 25 , “Classical”
Allegro con brio
Larghetto
Gavotte: Non troppo allegro
Finale: Molto vivace
INTERMISSION
The works by Brahms, Auerbach and Prokofiev will be performed on the November 21
and November 24 programs only.
Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella, Ballet in One Act
Elise Thora Volkmann
Jason Lee Berger
Peter Tomaszewski
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
Elise Thora
Volkmann
Elise Thora Volkmann
is currently in her
second year at the
Peabody Institute
where she studies Vocal Performance
with Ah Young Hong and Musicology.
This past summer Volkmann attended
Middlbury’s German for Singers
program where, in addition to advanced
German studies, she participated in a
master class with tenor James Taylor. She
received the First Prize in the Peabody
Art Song Competition and was named a
2018 Marilyn Horne Rubin Scholar.
Volkmann was featured in Stephen
Hartke’s Sons of Noah at the University
of Kentucky and with the Oberlin
Contemporary Music Ensemble. In 2018
she performed Life Story by Thomas
Adès with the Oberlin Sinfonietta.
Opera performances include the roles of
Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia
and Oberto in Handel’s Alcina, both
with the Oberlin Opera Theater.
Volkmann has also performed the role
of Sister Catherine in Jake Heggie’s
Dead Man Walking and participated in
a master class with the composer at the
Miami Summer Music Festival.
Elise Thora Volkmann makes her BSO debut.
Jason Lee Berger
The intermission on November 21 and November 24 will last 20 minutes.
The concert will end at approximately 9:45 pm on Thursday, 9:15 pm on
Friday, 8 pm on Saturday and 4:45 pm on Sunday.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
OFFICIAL INTERNET PROVIDER OF THE BSO:
The U.S. premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Eve's Lament—O Flowers, That Will Never Grow
is made possible through the major support of the Solomon and Elaine Snyder Fund
for New Music.
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OV E R T U R E / BSOmusic.org
Described as
a performer of
“extraordinary depth,
honesty and passion”
by the Delaware
County Daily Times, Jason Lee Berger
is at home in a wide range of genres,
including opera, oratorio, art song and
musical theatre.
After spending the summer of
2018 as an Apprentice Artist at
Charlottesville Opera performing the
role of Cinderella’s Father in Into the
Woods, Berger had an exciting 2018 –19